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Jewish Poker
For quite a while the two of us sat at our table, wordlessly stirring our coffee. Ervinke was bared. All right, he said. Let’s play poker. No, I answered. I hate cards. I always lose. Who’s talking...
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The past few weeks/months/years have been interesting to say the least; and all surrounds the recent activities surrounding basic laws; my colleague David Enoch summarizes the situation here quite...
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The summer was subadditive, the fall is ?-positive
The summer and spring was quite eventful and interesting, aside from lazy rhymes. Apart from exciting new work that I will talk about later, I just submitted a paper that proves subadditivity of...
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Shakshuka and paying the bill
I had lunch with László Babai yesterday, and he asked me the following problem. I changed it up a little to make it less findable online (though I did not find the problem in this variant).Say you...
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Frank Hagen Lutz (1968 – 2023)
I was sad to learn that my friend, coauthor and academic brother Frank Lutz passed away a few days ago, way too soon. You can see the announcement here. I want to write a bit about his mathematics...
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Workshop and lecture series next year
Anargyros Katsampekis, Stavros Papadakis, Vasiliki Petrotou and I organize a workshop in beautiful Ioannina next year, details can be found here. Poem by Zeev Smilanski Also, lecture series in Miami...
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Spectrum (and the difference between empathy and compassion)
So it seems that I am on the autism spectrum disorder, and rather severely so. In 2022, it was too much. Several people close to me died, ironically none of them due to COVID; after some initial...
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Shame
I want to write about one more aspect of being for me: shame. Part of it arises from the internal realization something is wrong with me, an inner critic that constantly drives my self-perception so...
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Inclusion
I was at a famous research institute recently that hosts weekly workshops, and I was dismayed to learn that it has become harder for single parents (I am not one, but still) to attend. I think...
View ArticleStellar refinements and the Oda and Alexander conjectures
One of the fundamental results of PL topology on one hand, and the algebraic geometry of toric varieties on the other, is that any map in the respective categories (PL homeomorphism on the one hand,...
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